Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-03-16

Brooklyn, March bat the Tabernacle
ms r. morning The Rev. T. pc viii saumas y
scripture. He then gave out The ny mn oesin
ning:-
Must Jesus bsar the cross alone,
And all the W rid go free?
No! there 8 cross Tor every one.
And there's cross for me-
The subject of his discourse was "Stingine
Annoyances and his text euter"nomy VII
~: The Lord thy God Will send the hornet.
II se' ms as if the insect world were deter
mine d Ia war against the human race. IL rs
every year atiacking The grain II Ids anu IN
orchard and the vineyards. The Cnlorad
hectic, the Nebraska gras>hopper. the New
Jersey locust. the universal potato destroyer
| seem to carry on the work which was begun
ages ago when the insects buzzed oui OF Moan s
ark az the door was opened
In my text the hornet flies out on lis mis-
sion. 1t Is a species of wasp, swift in us mo
tion and violent In its sting. lis ionch Is Tor
ture to- man rr beast We have all Sc en- tns
| cattle run believing from the cut of It's lancet
In boy hood We used 10 stand cautiously look
ing n The gtObuIar nest hung from the Tree
branch, and Will we were looking III the won
d rful pas -board covering were struck
with something that sent us shrieking away
The bornet goes in swarms 1t has capta rs
over hundreds, and twenty of them attack ne
one man will produce certain death The Per
SLAMS attempted TO conquer Christian city
hui the eiephan' s nd the beasts on which the
Persians rode were assaulted by the hornet sc
that the whole army was broken up and tins
noxieus insect stung out the Hittites and a
naanites from their country. VIII The CLEAN
ing sword and chariot of war could not accom-
lish was done ny the punct uTe of an ipsect-
The O. d sent the hornet.
My friends, when we are assaulted by behe.
moths of iroub,e-great behemotns of trouble
we become chivaric. aDd we assault them
we gel on the hie h.mettled stet d of Onr cour'
age. and make a cavalry charg at tn m, and
10 Gnd be with u.s. we come out stronger and
bet err than when we went in. But. alas Tor
these i-sectite annoyances of life these foes
100 small To shoot these things without any
| avoi duro's weight the gnats and the midges
| and the flies AID the wasps, and { e hornets!
In other words IT, is th- small singing annoy.
| ances of our lite which drive Us GU, and use us
up. Into the best conditioned life for some
grand and glorious purpose, God SENDS the
hornet.
remark in the first place that these small
singing annoyances may come In the shape OF
a sensitive nervous organization. People " q
are Frustrated under typhoid fevefs ar with
brok en- bones get plenty of sly mpathy. but who
pfties anybody That rs nervousY Inc doctors
say. and The family SAYS. and everyb"dv says.
''Ohi she's only little nervous; that's ali.''
The sound of n heavy fOO', the harhh clearing
OF a throat, a di cord in music. want of har-
mony between the shawl and the glove on the
same person, q curt answer. passing slis bt,
the wind from the east, any one of ten thou
sand annoyances. O7ens e door for the hOr-
net The fact is that the vast majority of the
people in this co .nt'y are overwOrked, and
their nerves are the first to give out A great
multitude are under the strain of Ley den, who,
when he was told by his ply stefan that if he
did not stop working while he wa in such poor
physical health he would die. responded,
doctor whether 1 live or die the wheel must
r eep going around" These persons OF whom
speak lave 6 bleeding sensitiventss The
flies love 10 light on anything raw, and these
people are like the Canaan;tes spoken of in
The text or In the cOntext-they have very
thin covering and are vulnerable at all points.
And the Lord sent the hornet.
Again, these small insect annoyance may
come to us in the Sha pc of fierds ard AGO nj
ances who are always sayiug disagreeable
things. There are some people you cannot be
wit h Tor half an hour but YOU feel cheered and
rOnfOrted. Then there are o her people you
cannot b. with for five minutes before you feel
miserable. They do not mean to disturb you.
but they sting you to the bone. They gather
up all the ad verse criticisms about your per
son, about your business. alb 'ut your home,
ateut :, our church anu they make your ear
the funnel into which they pourlt They laugh
heaI /, when they tell you as though 1T were
IL good joke and you laugh t0o-oulsiie. These
people are brau2 hi TO our attention in the Bi
Ole, ia th4 Box OF Ruin: N4o III went fort
be utifui and with tue finest OF wo Idly pros
poets INTO nno h-r land. but after awhile she
came back widowed. aud sick and poor. What
did her fIi-nds d" when she came back to the
city? They all Wen Gut and Instead Of giving
her urn'ionsense csnsolaif III. what did thes
do? Read The bnok OF Ruth and find ont They
threw up their hands aud sal Il this
Naonbi?" as much as 10 SAY, How very bad
,eu iooK - When l entered the ministry 1
looked very pale Tor years. aud every year. for
four or five years, hundred times year,
IN asa-d if / was not in "A consumption. And
passing Though the room wonid sometimes
hear peupl sigh and cry. :" A-ah not long for
this wuridr' 1resolved in those times that
never Ia any conversation, would say ny
hing depressing, and by The heip of GHi have
-pt The ItSJiu i,u These people OF " HON |
speak reap aud lad la III. great harvest fiji
OF disbursement Some days you greet them
with a III al us "d"od mrpl'i<, and they
come buzzisg y III 81 h some depressing in =
tt,riuat on. The Lord sent he hornet /; Is
astonishing how some p+npie p efer tn write
aud tu say disagr -abie hi ,ss. rnst was The
uf.-t, V..4r ret
I'll after his ipagr fioent exploit OF finding DR..
Liviugstona, and wneD Mr. stanley stood be-
fore tha servants OF Europe. and many Of the
small C iiics of the day, under pretencs of get
ting gengr aphIcal information put to him most
insoeni Que>tioDs: he fOldt his arus ard re-
fu>, to answer At The very lime when you
would Suppose all decent men would have ap
pauded the heroism OF the man. there e
those to hiss. The Lard sent the hornet. Aud
when afterward that ma sat d Wn Oh the
western cuast OF Afric4 sick and worn per ha ps
In the grandest achievement of the age In The
way al geographical discovery, here was small
cri leg ell over the " Orld to buzz and buzz, and
caricai ure and derid= him; and when few
weeks after that he g,t III London papers, as
he opened them. out flew the hornef. When
see mat there are so many people in the word
VINO ike TO say diSagreeable things, aud write
dsagreea bile things. Leone almost In my weak.
moments To- beiieve what a man said to me
in Phiiadel phia one Monday morning. l went
to gel the no 81 that vas al III. ltv-ry and he
hnstier, plain man. said O me, Mr.. Talmage.
saw that you pr cached to the ,oung men yes
use; mans a failure"
The small in .ecL annoyances of life some
times come IN the shape of local physical
trouble whion ds,es not amount Ia a pos, live
prustra,ion, hut " hFoh hcthers you when you
want to feel the best Perhaps il Is a sick heat
ache which has been the plague of your lie nd
you a n, Oint some occisi IN OF mirth social
iiy. or usefu ness. and ,0ht n The clock strikes
he h .ur you C ,nnot max your appsar tuce.-
p -rhaps the trouble IL beJveen the ear and the
{, reh.at IN The sh 'pa nfa Deuralgic twi e.
Nobo y can see 1t or sympathise With you: hut
Just at the time when you want your Intellect
cleartst and your CT posi- ion brightest, sou
tel - sharp, keen, discoucerdns thrust. The
Lord sent the hornet
Perhaps these small insect annoyances will
COM In the shane of a dmesiic Irritation. 7 he
parIor nd the XII chen do not al way harmon
lie To get good service and u Keep IL Is one
of tn great questions of the country: me-
times IT may be the arrnganGy and ipclnsd
eratiOns OF employers: but whatever lie The
fact. W. all admit there are these insect annoy
aucs winsing their way out from the culinary
de apartment. Il the grace OF God be- not in the
heart OF the housek eeper she cannot mainta n
he, equilibr um The men come home at night
and hear the story of these an Oyanees and say:
20! these hame trou bes are very little things -
They are small, small as wasps, but they suing.
Martha's nerves were all unstrung when she
rushed in asking Christ to reprove Mary. and
there tens of thousands of women who are
dying, stupg 10 death BY these pesiiferons
domestic annoyances. the Lord sent the
hornet
These small insect disturbances may also
come in the shape of business irriiations -
There are men herS who went throuy h 1857 aud
September 4, 1869 without losing their balance.
who are every DAY endorsed by little annoy
ances-a clerk i'll manners. or a blot OF NIX on
a blIi of iading cr the extravaganza of a part
ner who ov-rdra VS. his accounts, or the under
sci log by husir els rival, or the Whispering
OF business confidence in the street, or The
making of some little bad deot which WAS
agsi st your judgment. just to please some
body else. Ii IS nut the panicS that Kill the
merchants Pa les came only once in ten or
twenty years 1t is the constant din OF these
every day annoyanc-s which Is sending so
many of our best mereh nts INTO nervous
ny syepsia ami p: RAJ sis and the grave. When
our National cpmmerce fell fiat on its face
these men stood up and felt almost defiant;
BAT their life is ii lag way now under Lhe
swarm of these pestfe Gus anuoyauces. The
Lord sent the hornet.
have noticed In the history of some of my
cong egati"n that their annOyance. are muiii
pl, Ing, and that they have a hundred wh-re
they use IT, ha ge ten. tn natu a list tells us
that wasp sometimes he's a f. amy of went!
Thousand wasps, ard IL does seem rs II every
anhoyant of our fe bred a million. by me
help of God 10 d y 1 want TO sh w you the OF n
er side The hnrrtL Is If no use? q, YES! The
paturaiists iel us lhry are very important Il,
the worlds ecn"s''"y; thy Kill spiders ana
. C ar tie atmosphere; ard really believe
/ G'Ht sends The annoyAnceS % our ne upHh US
I" kill the hpii, ~ at thu soul and 10 clear inc
atmosphere If onr skies. Thee auu0yance'
q q nj IuiD wax us from t.uf